I recently saw a piece of news: the unmarried rate among 30-year-olds in Japan reaches 55%, and in Tokyo it is close to 60%. I not only have doubts in my heart, has it become a fashion not to get married, or have people become addicted to fast food and mobile phones, and no longer regard marriage as an important way to relieve loneliness?

It wasn’t until I opened the book "Wedding Canteen 2" that I found the answer to the question from the emotional stories behind each delicacy in the book: "It’s not that only marriage can lead to happiness, but if there are people around you A person who can share joys and sorrows will have his joy doubled and his pain halved. Therefore, he can only work hard to find the one he loves while not giving up on choosing the lifestyle he likes so as to live out his own life. Only when you are wonderful can you get closer to happiness step by step."

The author of this book, Yamaguchi Eiko, is a member of the Japan Mystery Writers Association. She once worked in the employee cafeteria of the Marunouchi News Cooperative while writing novels. Having experienced 43 failed blind dates, she debuted in the literary world at the age of 55 and became a best-selling novelist with the series of novels such as "The Wedding Canteen" and "The Canteen Auntie". 》Won the 20th Matsumoto Seicho Award.

The so-called marriage activities refer to various social activities carried out in order to find a marriage partner, including offline dating activities carried out by marriage agencies, and online dating activities carried out by dating software.

The Wedding Restaurant is a Megumi restaurant opened by Megumi Tamasaka, a Japanese single lady who is over 50 years old. Megumi was originally a famous fortune teller, but later she was found in the hotel because of her husband's extramarital affair with his assistant. She was burned to death in a fire, and her reputation was discredited because she was considered to have poor prediction skills.

Having lost his fortune-telling ability, Hui sells the Megumi Restaurant, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. The real estate tycoon who rents the store to Hui is Mei’s fortune-telling master Ouga and his adopted son Shinkyoji, and the two form a bond. Understood the indissoluble bond.

The Meigumi Canteen run by Hui mainly sells large plate dishes and oden. She often follows the seasonal changes and uses seasonal ingredients to create some special dishes, which are very popular among diners.

For example, the first autumn special dish Hui makes in the book is vinegar-soaked mackerel. The specific method is to soak the mackerel sliced ??with a knife in sugar and salt in turn, and drain off the excess water. Let it taste, then soak them in vinegar with kelp soaked in advance, and pour in broth to soak for about 15 minutes. The finished fish will not only melt in your mouth, but also be extremely delicious.

Hui not only makes delicious food with care, but also recommends wines that best match the food to customers who come to eat. She not only provides services to customers but also helps them to relieve their bad moods and moods. She encourages them to come Older women who are eating should not give up looking for the lover with whom they will spend the rest of their lives through online and offline methods. At the same time, encourage them to find the lifestyle they like and live their own wonderful life.

Full of love and positive energy, Hui not only uses her love for life to create food that customers like, but also uses her sixth sense, which is much stronger than ordinary people, to help customers predict fate and guard her heart. Customers go to harvest their own love and happiness.

With the influx of Western money worship trends, a vulgar view of love was once circulated in society: "I would rather laugh in a BMW than cry in a bicycle." Sugar daddy once became a way for girls not to suffer the hardships in life.

In the book, after Maho, who came to the Meigumi cafeteria to eat, received his doctorate, in order to find a formal career in the university, he was willing to be the extramarital lover of his university teacher, and the two came to the United States together. When eating in the Gumi cafeteria, Maho behaved submissively and submissively, while her teacher behaved domineering, arrogant and very unpopular.

When Zhenfan’s university teacher failed to help her realize her dream, she chose to become a member of a dating agency, trying to marry an older man with a successful career to provide financial support for her to concentrate on research, even if She didn't love the other person, and her desire to use marriage to realize her dream was almost taken advantage of by a man with a gangland background and ulterior motives.

Fortunately, Megumi helped Maho see through the motives of this unscrupulous dating agency and the sinister man early, and was able to prevent Maho from falling into a trap in time.

In addition, Maho met his high school classmate Ryota in the Megumi cafeteria, and found that the person he truly loved was him. With Megumi's help, the two older men and women who sincerely loved each other eventually became an enviable life partner. .

Shibata Yuna, who came to the Meigumi cafeteria to eat, does administrative work in a school. She has a good appearance and figure, but it is difficult for her to give full play to her personal charm. It always makes people feel an indescribable sense of tension.

At first, Hui suggested that Youcai use online dating software to contact more destined people, and give timely dating opinions and suggestions. After trying several times, Youcai either met someone who was not a good person or was attracted by others. Until one time, Yuna tried to modify and renovate the old kimono left by her grandma. After receiving praise from other customers at the Meihe cafeteria, Yuna found that she had finally found a career she loved.

While working, Yuna used her free time to renovate kimonos for online customers. She gradually found the mission and meaning of her life from the reputation and recognition of customers, and her whole person also glowed with vitality and enthusiasm. brilliance.

Yuna, who gradually feels that a person can live well as long as she finds the joy of life, attracts the attention of Mr. Asami, the owner of a fabric store who saw the clothes she made online, and they make an appointment to go together. Went to Hui's Meigumi restaurant to eat oden and fell in love with each other at first sight.

Yuna, who was once so anxious to get married but could never get her wish, ushered in her true destiny while learning to be alone calmly, in line with the classic saying: If you bloom, Butterflies come naturally. If you are wonderful, God will arrange it.

The book "Wedding Canteen 2" takes the perspective of Hui, the female owner of Meigumi Canteen, and tells the story through the five plates of special seasonal dishes she carefully prepared and paired with suitable wines. The love and marriage story that happened between her and several regular customers of the gourmet restaurant shows their different views on marriage and love and their pursuit of happiness. It is bittersweet and tender and healing.